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During the past week, I’ve noticed erratic behavior (technically known as flaky) trying to use Google search and DuckDuckGo.
Have others had problems?
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Yes, DDG keeps dropping out. Also, The Australian is now coming up in mobile ‘phone layout on my tablet, which means overlarge photos of people whose faces I don’t wish to see at ‘close quarters’ ( as ‘in yer face’). I don’t know how or why that changed. At least the DM, on the few occasions I look at it, offers it and it can be refused; no such thing with The Aus.
Also, couldn’t get rid of Flightradar yesterday at one time, on Google; ended up shutting down the tablet to start again. I have a laptop but the tablet is handy to read over breakfast and during the irritating ads during Sky News (like Kleva and No Pong 🙁 ! ).
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No problems with DDG or Google.
Nothing at Downdetector either – “User reports indicate no current problems at Duckduckgo”
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Breaking news, Sunak may have cracked on some NetZero targets TBC.
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First write up. Sounds like the usual flying some kites to see which if any have a net benefit in popularity over outcry.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66857551
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Will this be just more empty talk from the Tories? Wasn’t it just 2 months ago that they were saying they were the friend of the motorist? What happened after that?
An then there is the ‘migrant’ crisis. Michael Heaver on the eyewatering cost to the British taxpayer.
(2m 39s video clip)
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Here is the simple solution to the migrant crisis in Britain, if the government has the will – in a document written by a barrister:
https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/Fixing-Human-Rights-Law.pdf
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Britains biggest news story is ‘The Russell Brand Emergency’. Britain has half a million people injured by the mRNA jab. 7.5 million on the NHS waiting list. Excess deaths are running at 1,000 a week. But all the newspaper headlines say that the most important issue is, Russell Brand was once a very naughty boy. Celebrities and Sex dominate all the newspapers on sale, even the Daily Mail and the Times. So people are turning to ‘The Light’ and the ‘Epoch Times’ newspapers on subscription. According to the Metropolitan Police, not one person came forward to officially accuse Brand of any crime, and only one investigation is taking place after Downing Street said that the allegations are “very serious and concerning”. But no criminal charges have been made and Brand is assumed innocent until proven guilty. However the British Government are now asking Youtube if they can take Brand down, and are now using the ‘Brand Emergency’ as impetus for passing of the Orwellian Online Harms Bill. Russell Brand was known to have been a very promiscuous person. The Guardian’s editorial said that “Brand was a misogynist in plain sight”. This is why ‘Britain’s Brand Emergency’ is extremely important for the mainstream media the government and the intelligence agencies: https://rumble.com/v3ixjru-heres-why-theyre-coming-for-russell-brand.html
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Any female of breeding age who didn’t know who Russell Brand was, well, what can you say.
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I’ve never heard of him, but he sounds like an ordinary guy who had more opportunities than the rest of us.. Generally “rape, sexual assault and promiscuous behaviour’ has far too much opinion involved from women who are angry at being slighted after the fact.
Just another non-news to occupy the chattering class.
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‘Generally “rape, sexual assault and promiscuous behaviour’ has far too much opinion involved from women who are angry at being slighted after the fact.’
“Angry at being slighted”?? Are you for real?
Far from being slighted women often suffer fear of future sexual assault. They tend to regard the world as untrustworthy and unsafe which can lead to the restriction of social activities, including work and community involvement.
BTW it’s “have far too much opinion” not “has”
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With whom? Takes two to tango.
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Yes, dancing; sometimes viewed as the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
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It does take two to tango. But the other persons are not necessarily promiscuous just because the person they have all been with is being promiscuous.
Brand has described himself as promiscuous.
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Beyond risible World Weather Attribution Group Libya flood claims.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66854670
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tells climate marchers to be ‘too big and too radical to ignore’ – as it happened
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2023/sep/17/nyc-march-end-fossil-fuels-alexandria-ocasio-cortez
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FWIW – re that “First Nation”
“The extinction of the Australian pygmies”
“From the 1940s until the 1960s, it was fairly widely known there were pygmies in Australia. They lived in North Queensland and had come in from the wild of the tropical rainforests to live on missions in the region. This was a fact recorded at the time not only in anthropological textbooks and articles but also in popular books about the Australian Aborigines. There was even an award-winning children’s book tracing their origins. The more famous photographs of the Australian pygmies were reproduced in both the academic and the popular literature.”
More at
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/history-wars/2002/06/the-extinction-of-the-australian-pygmies/
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What to do, what to do… do we claim they never existed and WE are the original peoples? Do we just burn the doubters and ignore them like politicians do?? Do we claim they were just short aborigines and we are all the original peoples?
Tough time setting yourself up for a life of unearned, exclusive wealth and power.
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The accompanying story to that subject is the reports from Dutch ships logs of the 1600’s. The Dutch ships that “missed” Indonesia and ended up on the West Australian shore. Some shipwrecked. In some logs its was noted there were 2 types of “natives” on this strange land- taller and shorter. It was also reported that the taller natives were observed hunting down the shorter natives. So, the present dominant Aborigines were not in fact ” First” and were indeed invaders of their own kind.
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‘Power struggle and a ‘shocked’ cabinet minister.
‘In an extraordinary swipe Infrastructure Minister Catherine King has joined farmers, councils and environmentalists in attacking consultation on a major transmission project.’ (Oz)
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Willis E has a look at “Extremely Common Rarities” and finds more “talking through the trilby”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/19/extremely-common-rarities/
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FWIW
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/settled_2x.png
“To which I would add we also now know just how common “rare” weather events are.”
A comment there
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The analogy with bingo is striking. Like cricket records, there are enough variables that one can find a “record” in otherwise mundane circumstances.
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FWIW
“Green Revolution Fail: Congress to Refuse Funding for Ukraine?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/19/green-revolution-fail-congress-to-refuse-funding-for-ukraine/
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FWIW
“So You Wish To Ban Fossil Fuels?”
“There was a march this weekend for exactly that in NYC.
It was rather amusing to watch people parading around arguing for being disrobed, for the street they walk on to not exist, to have no means to get to and from same, for the signs and markers used to make them to not exist and in fact to not have the free time to march at all.”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=249718
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FWIW
“The illegal alien invasion is destroying our country – deliberately”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/09/the-illegal-alien-invasion-is.html
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FWIW
“I have a dream”
https://richardsonpost.com/paulzanetti/33069/jacinta-price-and-one-australia/
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Countries do what they need to do and then move on forward. The mistake is to fear India.
Trudeau went too woke and now he is paying the price for excessively lovey doveying it with a visible minority He forgot that other visible minority which looks very similar holds a rather different opinion.. Oopsie.
Hat tip to Terry Mileski of the CBC for pointing out the alternate viewpoint.
https://archive.org/details/blood-for-blood_202107
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66856568
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Another view on the Sikh seperatist movement.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/khalistan-explained-canada-india-nijjar-1.6971803
Trudeau boasted about having more Sikhs in his cabinet than Modi.
Trudeau’s mistake wasnt to embrace South Asian politicians. I am fine with that. The mistake was to be overly chummy with a specific minority.
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FWIW – more “covid confidence”
“FDA Has ‘Gone Rogue’ In Its Approval Of New COVID-19 Boosters: Dr. Robert Malone”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/fda-has-gone-rogue-its-approval-new-covid-19-boosters-dr-robert-malone
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IIRC no mice were involved this time (/S)
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Use prisoners for electricity – Ukrainian MP
Ukrainian lawmaker Sergey Grivko has suggested using the country’s prison population as a source of electricity. According to the MP from the ruling Servant of the People party, inmates could use bicycle generators in exchange for shortened jail terms.
In a Facebook post, Grivko revealed that he had “one of my creative bills registered” for consideration by the country’s parliament, TASS reported on Tuesday. He explained that he was aiming to “motivate 50,000 inmates to generate electricity with the help of bicycle generators.”
The lawmaker suggested rewarding prisoners by shortening their terms by one month each year.
The unconventional plan would prove to Ukrainian society that alternative ways exist of “filling the country’s power grid,” he claimed. Grivko also suggested that gyms could double up as power generation facilities.
https://www.rt.com/news/583221-ukraine-mp-inmate-electricity-generation/
It’ll probably come to that everywhere the way it’s going.
Now if I hook my bike dynamo up to a hairdryer I can fry an egg.
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Wednesday funny: Indians Find Water And Whales On Jupiter
https://knowwhatithinknow.blogspot.com/2012/08/indians-find-water-and-whales-on-jupiter.html
What will they find on the Moon? 😆
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Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says free speech is a weapon of war, and censorship is necessary to protect free speech
https://twitter.com/iluminatibot/status/1704150599632314711/
Do these morons even understand how hypocritical and contradictory their verbal diarrhea is?
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FWIW
“GMC erases women from maternity policies”
https://youtu.be/9S9NkyhxJaI
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FWIW
“An Ancient, Brutal Massacre May Be the Earliest Evidence of War”
“The battered skeletons at Nataruk, west of Kenya’s Lake Turkana, serve as sobering evidence that such brutal behavior occurred among nomadic peoples, long before more settled human societies arose. They also provide poignant clues that could help answer questions that have long plagued humanity: Why do we go to war, and where did our all too common practice of group violence originate?”
More at
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-brutal-massacre-may-be-earliest-evidence-war-180957884/
And I’d guess that all the features of the “peck order” would have been in hunter/gatherer groups as well?
Via a comment at Chiefio
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Chiefio comments on that –
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2023/09/17/how-trust-is-lost-hcq-authority-corruption-abuse/#comment-166668
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Italy BANS Bill Gates’ lab-grown “meat”
“We don’t want your ‘Frankenstein foods” Italy tells Gates.
In a move that proves there is another way, Italy is set to ban all lab-grown ‘meat’ from next year.
The law will cover all ‘synthetic’ meats including those called ‘chicken’, ‘beef’, ‘fish’ or ‘pork’. The bill not only cites Italy’s food heritage as justification but also the intention to protect the population’s health, though this has been played-down by the mainstream media.
From 2024 any manufacturer caught attempting to sell lab-grown meat faces a hefty fine of up to €60,000 (£53,000) and possible imprisonment, sending a clear message to those tempted to inflict the frankenstein food on the Italian public.
The proposed bill came hard on the heels of a series of government decrees banning the use of flour derived from insects such as crickets and locusts in pizza or pasta, another thing that Gates has invested heavily in.
https://www.visionnews.online/post/italy-bans-bill-gates-lab-grown-meat
GOOD!!
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Self-driving cars can now tell passengers what they’re thinking
Microsoft-backed autonomous vehicle (AV) startup Wayve has given its cars the ability to explain their decisions in conversational language — a move that could accelerate their development and increase public trust in self-driving cars.
Because AVs remove human error from the equation, they have the potential to dramatically reduce the number of accidents on our roads, but if the AV industry can’t change the public’s perception of self-driving cars, they may not get a chance to make our roads safer.
Talking cars: In an attempt to get more people to feel comfortable in AVs and improve their performance, Wayve has launched LINGO-1, a self-driving AI that can explain its “thought process” in easy to understand language.
“LINGO-1 can generate a continuous commentary that explains the reasoning behind driving actions,” writes Wayve. “This can help us understand in natural language what the model is paying attention to and what it is doing.”
https://www.freethink.com/robots-ai/self-driving-cars-wayve
AI car – “I’m pulling in for some KFC and a quick lube”. 😆
I will ALWAYS prefer to drive without help as AI can’t comprehend the sheer number of morons on the roads, and predict their actions as well as I can. 😎
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Oddly, i have never felt the need to have a running commentary from a bus or taxi driver about their driving decisions ?
Why would i want that from a car ?
Just enable it to not crash, and get to the destination on time ,
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Open the pod bay doors Hal. I’m afraid I can’t do that Dave.
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This Eye-Opening Analogy Will Change Your Perception of the Covid Pandemic
In his book, “The Lost Art of Healing,” Nobel Laureate Bernard Lown recounts a remarkable experiment conducted on a condemned prisoner in India in 1936. Given the choice between being hanged or having his blood gradually and painlessly drained, the prisoner chose the latter. Strapped to a bed and blindfolded, water containers were secretly attached to the bedposts, and drip buckets were set up below. The sound of dripping water was then played loudly and gradually, and as it stopped, the healthy young man’s heart stopped as well. He died without losing a drop of blood.
The experiment that was conducted on the Indian prisoner sentenced to death was replicated on the global population in March 2020. We were led to believe that there was a highly dangerous virus and a pandemic of unprecedented scale. This caused billions of people to fear for their lives, as the media portrayed a common cold as something that was perceived by many people as an extinction-level event, which they were reminded of all day long by all these mask-wearing zombies (by the way, that was the main reason for the mask mandate).
The pandemic response was THE (!!!) deadly scandal that went against the policy of calming the population and taking positive health measures. Instead of promoting healthy habits and banning harmful substances, the response was to impose strict measures, inject gene therapy, and spread fear through the media. Fear kills. Those who spread fear and orchestrated the whole plandemic were consequently killing millions of people and thus need to be held accountable.
https://www.drgoddek.com/p/this-eye-opening-analogy-will-change
Orchestrated fear for an almost nonexistant threat to scare the masses into blind compliance for “the main event” coming up.
Bottle shops were “essential” but you’ll be arrested on a beach soaking up some healing and stress-countering vitamin D.
Every government action was the antithesis of real science and medicine that should have been applied for any REAL pandemic.
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It is likely possible to “point the bone” and convince a human that they will die, but that in itself does not extinguish a billion observations made by tens of thousands of people. Antigen and antibody tests. Electronmicrographs. D-dimer. Clotting. Cytokines. Oxygen saturation. Plaque Assay. PCR. Plus test arrays on treatments that work in the lab and in vivo. like Ivermectin. HCQ. etc.
Ponder that if we were in a hot biotech war, with GOF bioweapons being developed in many labs around the world, there are reasons why some people would want you to think it is not happening. Plus good people may well find it so depressing that it’s comforting “not to worry”.
Some government actions were textbook microbiology, used in Quarantine and warfare for 2,000 years. Our big problem was that while governments were hypocrites, erratic, capricious, and too late to shut the borders, making quarantines horribly, unnecessarily long and ineffective, self sabotaged, they ultimately chose actions that served Big Pharma, or even the CCP before they served the people. Not just incompetent, but evil.
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Andrew Bolt: Albanese government’s green energy revolution in ‘strife’
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Methamphetamine rules
ABC journalist Kirsten Drysdale says her phone has been “blowing up” after news of her unusual baby name went viral online.
But the media veteran says calling her son “Methamphetamines Rules” wasn’t intended as a stunt.
“We were just trying to answer a question for our viewers for our new show, What The FAQ, which was just around the rules about what you can and can’t call your baby,” she told SBS News.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/abc-journalist-says-naming-her-son-methamphetamine-rules-wasnt-a-stunt/kuc845mib
Who’d be dumb enough to do that even as a stunt?
An ABC “journo”…
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Australia’s 13 New Deep State Corruption Targets
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“Straight out confession from Burney that she’s rubbish at her job.
Wednesday, 20 September 2023”
“There’s no other way to read this, coming from the Minister responsible for Indigenous Affairs.”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c8d39dd1c9200b-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/straight-out-confession-from-burney-that-shes-rubbish-at-her-job.html
And next thread below that
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c8d39e24c2200d-800wi
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“We’re not going to save the planet by bankrupting the British people.”
It’s like torture, every now and then common sense seems to be returning, only for it to be snatched away. Nothing worthwhile will change.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12539069/Were-not-going-save-planet-bankrupting-British-people-Suella-Braverman-says-government-economy-environment-Rishi-Sunak-moves-delay-2030-petrol-car-ban-despite-industry-anger-confusing-change.html
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POP Culture then too ? torture on the Brain unless you’re going with the flow. Flying with the Crows… only Farmers know that one ( ie Urbanites generally have NO IDEA fit a Cra is )
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“World’s largest companies stall climate action despite promises”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/20/worlds-largest-companies-stall-climate-action-despite-promises/
More questions for Qantas?
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California Sues Big Oil Alleging Energy Companies at Fault for, well, Everything!
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All in the Mind ? Having an awful Summer from work related and the Environment we live in: Just been introduced to Mazon Music free … Great no adverts if yo choose…. Easy Listening- Just been listening to their Jim Reeves & now Val Doonican…. yes E A S Y listening, soft & quiet in the background unlike modern stuff – In a Hurry and shouting type of sounds. Funny though how when you tell people something, you have to both repeat and speak awfully S L O W L Y to get it in… So what is this Lifestyle of going with the flow and POP culture: How far does pop culture extend? – into Eco protests – because it is against commonsense ?
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Nuisance lawsuits: Eh ? laws that protect agricultural and forestry operations and facilities from nuisance lawsuits. … I think we need more laws to PREVENT nuisance lawsuits … Laws to prevent more laws, where will that end and be careful what you vote for. But but but, eh?
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